Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:14:01 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 17:10:05, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 16:30:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 19, 2003 at 14:48:34, Aaron Gordon wrote: >> >>>On February 19, 2003 at 11:43:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I'm saying you will get a few random bugs by doing so. I refuse to tolerate >>>>inconsistent >>>>behavior. >>>> >>>>The vendors market chips at a particular clock frequency for a _reason_. >>> >>>As I said in previous posts my chip is 100% stable, tested with Prime95 and >>>memtest86. It is absolutely rock-solid. I can boot into linux and setup a shell >>>account and you can spend all day trying to crash it if you'd like, it won't >>>happen though. >> >> >>So? The chip we had the problem with had _also_ run perfectly with all the >>"overclocker >>benchmarks" available. But it failed on a real application. I don't have the >>time to deal with >>that... > >What "overclocker benchmarks" did you use? Anything other than Prime95, >Memtest86 and Burnk7 is pretty much useless for testing the stability of the >cpu/memory. You are asking the wrong person. I was asked to help debug what was thought to be a software problem. My first test was to run it on an intel box and it ran perfectly, which led me to suspect the overclocking. If "prime95" was being suggested by the overclockers two years ago then it was probably used. But I didn't do any of that as the problem was given to me _after_ the overclocking experts had decided all was fine. > Other programs MAY do such a thing but not nearly as well. As I said >before, go ahead and try to crash my CPU via overclocking instabilities. Won't >happen. ;) If I ran 2.6GHz, yeah. It'll be unstable. 2.46GHz is 100% rock solid >stable and I'd be willing to bet my entire system on it, too. > >Prime95 runs on linux too by the way, if you want a copy go to >http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.html >Right now it appears their server is down though, thats not usual so check back >every so often. Also, www.memtest86.com. If you haven't tested your memory with >that you may want to give it a shot.
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